Meru

Meru may refer to:

Geography

Kenya

• Meru, Kenya, a city in Meru County, Kenya
  • Meru County, created by the merger of
    • Meru Central District
    • Meru North District
    • Meru South District
• Ameru, the Meru people in the Republic of Kenya
• Meru National Park, a Kenyan wildlife park

Tanzania

• Meru District, a district in Arusha Region, Tanzania
• Meru, Tanzania, a village in northern Tanzania (Meru District) inhabited by the Meru people, known as the Wameru in Bantu
• Mount Meru (Tanzania), a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania

Other places

• Meru, Hazaribagh, a small town in Jharkhand, India
• Meru, Malaysia, a town in Klang, located in Selangor
• Meru, Western Australia, a locality near Geraldton
• Méru, a commune of the Oise département in France
• Meru Peak, a mountain in the Indian Himalayas, not to be confused with Mount Meru (see the section Religion below).

Architecture

• Pelinggih meru, is the multiple tiered roofs similar to pagoda in Balinese temple

Entertainment

• Meru (film), a 2015 documentary about climbing Meru Peak
• Prince Meru (Sgt. Frog), main character from the anime movie Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 2: The Deep Sea Princess
• Meru (Legend of Dragoon), a playable character from the video games The Legend of Dragoon

People

• Ameru, Bantu for the Meru people of Kenya
• Wameru, Bantu for the Meru people of northern Tanzania
• Meru (overseer of sealers), an Ancient Egyptian official under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty
• Vatsu Meru, politician from Nagaland, India

Organizations

• Meru Networks, a supplier of wireless local area networks that was acquired by and integrated into Fortinet in 2015
• Meru Cabs is a taxi aggregator company based in Mumbai, India.
• Maharishi European Research University (MERU), school that researches transcendental meditation

Religion

• Mount Meru, a mountain in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology

Other uses

• Meru language, the language spoken by the Meru people (Ameru)
• Maha Meru - a 3-dimensional Sri Chakra Yantra
• Meru (beetle), a family of aquatic beetles in the suborder Adephaga
• MERU, Milli Earth Rate Unit, an angular velocity equal to 1/1000 of Earth's rotation rate. Sometimes used to measure the performance of an inertial navigation system

See also

• Mweru (disambiguation)
• Meroo National Park, a national park in on South Coast of New South Wales, Australia